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Sunday, January 13, 2019

Free Health Care for Illegal Immigrants - Joseph Klein

The left-wing bastions of California and New York City are
becoming more than just sanctuaries for illegal immigrants already
residing there. They are being transformed into powerful magnets luring
more illegal immigrants to enter the country. California Governor Gavin
Newsom and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio intend to have their legal
residents pay for the comprehensive health care of illegal immigrants.

Amongst New York City's roughly 600,000 uninsured who will be
guaranteed government-funded health care under Mayor de Blasio’s plan
are an estimated 300,000 so-called “undocumented New Yorkers" – i.e.,
illegal immigrants. The mayor’s proposed social experiment in universal
health care, including for illegal immigrants, is estimated overall to
cost $100 million per year. "We also have a way to provide direct health
care to a lot of our neighbors who happen to be undocumented,” Mayor de Blasio said. “They're still part of our community. They need health care; their families need health care."

California Governor Newsom wants to extend health care benefits
already offered to illegal immigrants under the age of 19 to young
adults up to the age of 26. This would make California “the first state
in the nation to cover young undocumented adults through a state
Medicaid program,” the governor’s office boasted last Monday. The
additional cost has been estimated at $250 million a year, which could
rise to as much as $400 million by the 2020-2021 fiscal year. “It’s the
moral thing to do … When we talk about universal health care, it means
everybody,” Governor Newsom said.

The next step, if Governor
Newsom and some other state Democrat politicians have their way, would
be to extend state-funded health care to all uninsured illegal immigrant
California residents, irrespective of age.

Out of the
estimated 1.8 million people in California who are uninsured and reside
in California illegally, approximately 1.2 million would qualify for
Medi-Cal, which is the state’s part of the federal Medicaid program. The
plan would be to fund this giveaway out of California’s own general
fund to avoid the restrictions in Obamacare’s expanded Medicaid
provisions that prohibit the use of federal funds for illegal aliens.
The bill to California taxpayers would be an estimated $3 billion. Such a
plan “means more and more illegal immigrants will come to California,
which would put incredible additional pressure on California’s budget,”
said Sally Pipes, president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute.

In short, such freebies for illegal immigrants will drain state and
city budgets of taxpayer funds that should be spent to improve
infrastructure and the delivery of basic public services for the benefit
of legal residents. Too many illegal immigrants will overwhelm the
health care system and drive up health care costs while lowering the
quality of service for virtually everyone.

Not to worry, say the progressives who reject the very idea that
someone can be in this country illegally. To call someone an illegal
immigrant, they believe, is racist. We should be a welcoming country to
all migrants who want to enter no matter how, they argue. The more the
merrier for both the immigrants themselves and the progressives who see a
treasure trove of potential votes down the road. No wonder Speaker
Nancy Pelosi tries to shut down any rational discussion of funding for
physical border barriers at the U.S. border with Mexico by claiming that
such barriers are “immoral.” This exercise in self-righteousness and
hypocrisy is itself immoral.

Border barriers are only
“immoral” to those who think sanctuary cities and states are acting
morally when they shield illegal immigrants who have committed serious
crimes separate and apart from their illegal entry itself. Pelosi’s
twisted moral code led her to reiterate her support for San Francisco’s
liberal sanctuary policies right after the death of Kathryn Steinle at
the hands of an illegal immigrant, a felon who had been previously
deported five times. San Francisco authorities released this monster
rather than turn him over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as
the federal agency had requested.

Border barriers are also
only “immoral” to those who think that illegal immigrants should be
rewarded for their illegal entry with plenty of freebies. Progressives
combine their moral certitude that our borders must be open with their
moral certitude that comprehensive health care is a basic “universal
human right.” Thus, for progressives, anyone residing in this country,
regardless of immigration status, must be granted this “universal
right.” Their sanctuary cities and states would become honeypots
attracting more and more illegal immigrants to partake.

It is
“immoral,” progressives believe, to worry about the cost of health care
for all, including those who should not be in this country in the first
place. It is their hidden agenda that is truly immoral. Progressives
would like nothing more than to overwhelm the health care system in
keeping with the so-called Cloward-Piven Strategy,
first proposed in 1966 by two members of the Democratic Socialists of
America, Richard Andrew Cloward and his wife Frances Fox Piven. The idea
is to increasingly overload the current capitalist economic system
deliberately with impossible financial demands so that it collapses from
within, leading to radical change.

As Brian Joondeph wrote in American Thinker:
“Think of what the current migrant caravan means in terms of
Cloward-Piven. Thousands of poor, unskilled migrants entering the US.
They need health care, education, housing, food, clothing, and other
basic needs which all cost money. Who pays for this?” The answer is you
and I. Universal health care, including for illegal immigrants, is
becoming mainstream within today’s Democrat Party.

The current
battle over funding for President Trump’s border barrier is a battle
not only over defense of the southern border from the surge of
immigrants seeking to enter the country by any means possible. It is
part of the larger battle to defend America as we know it from those who
seek its radical transformation into their fantasy of a progressive
utopia.